Teacher suspected of attempting to murder pupil

DETECTIVES were given more time yesterday to question a teacher at a school in Nottinghamshire who is being held on suspicion of attempting to murder a teenage pupil and assaulting two other children.

Jack Waterhouse, aged 14, was taken to hospital with serious head injuries after an incident in a classroom at All Saints’ Roman Catholic School in Mansfield on Wednesday morning.

He is now in a serious but stable condition in hospital.